{"id":753,"date":"2005-12-14T18:45:45","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T01:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faganfinder.com\/wp\/2005\/12\/14\/753\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T14:19:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T21:19:52","slug":"why-is-the-google-homepage-api-not-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/753\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Google Homepage API not HTML?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Someone please explain to me why the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/apis\/homepage\/\">Google Homepage API<\/a> is a small XML format that includes an HTML bit, instead of just HTML itself?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so they introduce a few bits of meta data. The links, such as screenshot can be handled by &lt;link \/&gt; with rel=&#8221;screenshot&#8221; and such. The other bits of data can be handled by &lt;meta \/&gt;, except for the title&#8230; there&#8217;s already one of those in HTML \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Note that I haven&#8217;t taken a good look at any of the Microsoft Live Gadgets, Google Sidebar API, Yahoo! Widgets (Konfabulator), or Dashboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone please explain to me why the Google Homepage API is a small XML format that includes an HTML bit, instead of just HTML itself? Okay, so they introduce a few bits of meta data. The links, such as screenshot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/753\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[142,221,12,218,219,220,204],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-api","tag-gadgets","tag-google","tag-googlehomepage","tag-homepage","tag-widgets","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}